Poll Closing Date: Sunday, February 28, 2016 7:00 PM (in 3 weeks)
is it possible to get an extension on this?!!?!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
omg just saw this thread. anyone that would have a problem with forks nerding out and making these playlist is totally insane . I have to admit that i'm really surprised by this shit and that this thread wasn't just locked.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
I'm still trying to figure out how he does it. Seems nearly impossible to keep up but I'll enjoy it while it lasts
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
this is some silly shit
― art, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
i know, february 28th is less than a month away, the deadline is on a sunday night (traditionally my time for hanging out), and i'm really worried there could be some confusion with the leap year factor. March 28th is surely safer?!?!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
I voted "not" by accident because I didn't understand the question
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
lol you all are ridiculous
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
one thing to keep in mind is that it's very easy to ask for permission on ILX
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
i mean if you want to "take the temperature" you just need to start a quick little poll thread and pop the question. (helps to have a reasonable deadline though...)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
I've been sleeping on Spotify but I think this thread has finally convinced me to give it a whirl, if only to check out some of forks' playlists.
(Hope it was okay to post that without permission.)
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
well! her comes ol' forks!
― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
good ol' forks ... yes, sir!
good ol' forks ...
How we hate him.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:08 (eight years ago) link
Oh, good forks How we hate him!How we hate him!Our dear old good forks
― how's life, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
burn this guy forks
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
Pitchforks --- offa this website!
― pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
You can't burn a fork.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:13 (eight years ago) link
You can't burn a fish, but you can tuna fork.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:15 (eight years ago) link
WARNING: This thread useshttp://www.thehatblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/blog-beret-lennon-e1375309662713-281x300.jpgCookies!
― Glissendorfin' Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link
(Xpost to Old Lunch)
― Glissendorfin' Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
i think it's always worth considering what matt p says as he is a smart, principled and numerously deprivileged individual - so while i am on forks' side here, and am grateful for his enormous effort in helping to expand our engagement with music, i wouldn't simply silence the threadstarter - forks himself has engaged with him, so i don't see why the rest of us shouldn't
― ZESTY O'PRIDE (imago)
He's also one of the biggest bullies on ilx, and this thread does nothing to dispel that reputation. I did try to engage with the question on an honest basis at the beginning of this thread, trying to work out if there was something that I'd missed, until it transpired that the objection was actually "I don't like the way you do it you should do more work until you do it the way I like it".
― emil.y, Thursday, 4 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
such mean posts on this thread
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:05 (eight years ago) link
Well, it's an important subject that stirs up deep emotions. It can hardly be helped.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
I hope that was sarcasm.
― The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
It started out silly then got a lil sillier then it started to go too far back the other way and then waaaay too much the other way somewhere about 2pm Dublin time forks was canonised and we shall not look for his like on the mortal plane again as of 3.40ish matt was to be tarred and feathered we expect that by 6pm someone will have realised that ilm is the pits and that this non issue didn't really matter and it will all have died down by dinner (carrot and celeriac soup)
― broderik f (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Good thread tho.
Will live long in the memory.
― The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
somewhere about 2pm Dublin time forks was canonised and we shall not look for his like on the mortal plane again
lol, otm.
― The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
forks, how much money are you getting from Goldman Sachs?
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm cool with forks' work, and I'd be cool with anybody else doing similar work in any other listening format. I can understand the idea of objecting to people posting links to non-artist-authorized, non-royalty-paying versions of the music people are discussing. Spotify links are, by nature, artist-authorized and royalty-paying. YouTube and Soundcloud links are sometimes authorized and paying, and sometimes not. So if you're posting YouTube links and objecting to Spotify links, I think you might be misunderstanding how one or both of these systems operate.
I don't think streaming is bad for music. My opinion on this topic is not a result of my working (now) at Spotify, but the fact that I continue to work at Spotify is a result of my opinion that doing so is pro-music not anti-music. And while my opinion on this topic has no more or less moral weight than anybody else's, it is at least based on more knowledge about how streaming works than the average person who doesn't work for a streaming service or a distributor or label.
As others have pointed out, I have been on ILM for a long time. I'm not here as a Spotify sales rep, and nobody at Spotify tells me what to say or not say here. I participate in the Spotify-specific thread because a) it's interesting to me, and b) I sometimes can add actual information to discussions that would otherwise be purely speculative or actively misinformed, and c) Spotify is not an anonymous borg, it's a relatively small set of actual humans doing actual things, and it seems like in general we're all better off if people who work at companies continue acting like people.
For me, personally, ILM ranges cheerfully from incredibly useful to bafflingly toxic. Personally, I wish everybody used real names and there were no polls and nobody ever tried to talk somebody else out of loving something they love. But this set includes not using real names, and polls, and somehow even trying to talk people out of loving things they love.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
here here
― ulysses, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
or hear hear even
<3 flopson putting everything on blast
peace to forks a great dude
never ban glenn
― I'm currently in an online essential oil class! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Nobody's really suggesting Glenn is banned
― jaggered little poll (wins), Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
Someone did! Also someone made the joke 'glenn banzig', which I feel should have got more applause. Also someone said "we wouldn't stand for it if other companies had representatives here" (or something along those lines)... but we do. We have people who work for G4wker, V1ce, P1tchfork (not sure why I'm googleproofing but let's go with it). We have people who talk about their work and the different perspectives it gives them all the time.
― emil.y, Thursday, 4 February 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
I don't even use my real name at work.
But my playlists are impeccable.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Of course it's fine for forks to do that. This is ridiculous.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Well, except the ones that were published publicly by accident. I hate how Spotify makes it so hard to keep those in line! Glenn, help me out, my account number is 289304 and my credit card number is the one with 694 on the back.
― pplains, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Someone did
or to put it another way... nobody did
― jaggered little poll (wins), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
but seriously nobody else is taking that suggestion seriously
― jaggered little poll (wins), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
first met forks ~11 years ago at a large ilx gathering at a bar. he brought along a sizable box of CDs -- promos from his job, maybe some mixes, i don't remember for sure. (it was actually slightly weird.) between that, and his former blog, his helping ilxors find music work/internships, his decade-plus of posts, and his palpable excitement about music and introducing ppl to it . . . flopsy otm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
He walked it back, tbf, but:
I also think it's creepy that we have our own Spotify sales rep now, dude should be banned
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 7:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
Anyone who's getting paid to work at a job is compromised and impure and should be lifetime banned imo.
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
I found that post, I was making a joke about his username being "nobody"
& yeah, one poster suggesting it & then immediately retracting = we do not need to be talking about this as a thing that will ever happen
― jaggered little poll (wins), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
Nobody's on first.
― how's life, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
he brought along a sizable box of CDs -- promos from his job, maybe some mixes, i don't remember for sure. (it was actually slightly weird.)
― ulysses, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
tbf i was already pretty well hammered by the time you arrived
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
kinda like forks' pottery! (you make pottery with a hammer, right?)
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
I will be disappointed if this thing ends in a kickstarter for forks' new kiln and not a script called forks.py
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link